of the border. With monsters on both sides and a bloodthirsty war between humans and Wolves raging, will their story end in love or tragedy? And will Aurora ever get home? Does she even want to?
sci-fi & fantasy
ALCHEMY OF SECRETS
Stephanie Garber
$ 34.99
Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor’ s stories are just fiction... but most students aren’ t Holland. She is hoping to use her thesis to rewrite her past by proving that some of the most infamous deaths in old Hollywood were actually murders committed by the devil. This is the first adult novel from global fantasy phenomenon Stephanie Garber.
THE STRENGTH OF THE FEW: HIERACHY # 2
James Islington
$ 34.99
available nov 11
The highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many – one of 2023 ' s most lauded fantasy novels. Vis has won the Iudicium, and lost everything. An ancient device beyond the Labyrinth has replicated him across three separate worlds – Obiteum, Luceum, and Res. Three different bodies, three different lives. He has to hide; fight; play politics. To train; trust; lie. And kill; heal; prove hismelf again, and again, and again. He is loved, and hated, and entirely alone.
ALCHEMISED SenLinYu
$ 36.99
Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner-of war, held captive by the new ruling class of corrupt guild families. To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena ' s fight to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self is just beginning.
crime & thriller
MAD MABEL Sally Hepworth
$ 34.99
They called it murder. She called it justice. In 1959, at just 15 years of age, Mabel Waller became the youngest Australian in history to be convicted of murder. In 2025, on a quiet Melbourne lane, an elderly man is found dead by his neighbour, 81-year-old Elsie Fitzpatrick. No one suspects any foul play. Until they discover Elsie’ s name used to be Mabel.
THE PROVING GROUND: LINCOLN LAWYER # 8
Michael Connelly
$ 34.99 $ 29.99
Mickey Haller has moved from criminal to civil court, but murder remains in his sights. In particular, the case of a chatbot encouraging the killing of a teenage girl. Mickey files a civil lawsuit against the company responsible for the chatbot and instantly finds himself on the wild frontier of the billion-dollar AI industry. Can Haller pull off a winning play for humanity?
THE WIDOW John Grisham
$ 34.99
Simon Latch is a smalltown lawyer struggling with debt and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an 85-year-old widow, visits his office to secure a new will, it seems his luck has finally changed: she claims she’ s sitting on a $ 20 million fortune and no one else knows about it. But soon Simon finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’ t commit: murder.
THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE: THURSDAY MURDER CLUB # 5
Richard Osman
$ 34.99
It ' s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy
with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets someone who fears for their life, the thrill of the chase is ignited once again.
RETURN OF THE SPIDER: ALEX CROSS # 33
James Patterson
$ 34.99 $ 29.99
Alex Cross thought serial killer Gary Soneji was dead and buried. But when a hidden cabin reveals a stash of gruesome trophies and diaries, Cross realises the Spider’ s evil influence has spread wider than he ever thought possible. The chilling truth soon becomes clear – Cross imprisoned the wrong man. Now he must retrace the steps of a long-ago investigation.
DENIED ACCESS: MITCH RAPP # 24
Vince Flynn, Don Bentley
$ 34.99
Don Bentley completes the trilogy begun with American Assassin by taking Mitch Rapp back to his fledgling assassin days, picking up where Kill Shot ended, on a mission to save the woman he loves amid a CIA showdown with the Russian intelligence services in a new thriller from the author of Vince Flynn’ s # 1 New York Times bestselling series.
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LAST ONE OUT Jane Harper
$ 34.99
In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his 21st birthday. But Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. Five long years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam ' s disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts. But Ro still wants answers.
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